Air Products, Lehigh, Pa., has announced a multi-billion-dollar plan to build a new net-zero hydrogen energy complex in Edmonton, Canada. The $1.3 billion (CAD) net-zero hydrogen production and liquefaction facility expected onstream in 2024 will accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.
Continue readingOerlikon Metco opens new Laser Center of Competence
Oerlikon Metco, Wohlen, Switzerland, has built a unique laser center of competence that gives customers access to laser cladding. Laser cladding results in high-quality deposits with a metallurgical bond to the substrate.
Continue readingMetlab provides heat treated propellers for hydroplane racing team
Metlab, Wyndmoor, Pa., has provided heat-treated propeller blades for a hydroplane racing team located in Cinnaminson, N.J. The treatment was subject to the H-900 condition (900°F/ hours at heat) and was age hardened in a vacuum furnace to ensure that the parts were free of scale.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Metal Injection Molding
Metal injection molding (MIM) is a metalworking process in which finely powdered metal is mixed with binder material to create a feedstock that is then shaped and solidified using injection molding. It is similar to the conventional PM process but different in some important areas.
Continue readingNUST MISIS scientists create unique alloy for air, rail transports
National University of Science and Technology, Russia, has developed a technology for producing a unique heat-resistant aluminum alloy with improved durability in cooperation with their colleagues from the Siberian Federal University and the Research and Production Centre of Magnetic Hydrodynamics (Krasnoyarsk).
Continue readingCAN-ENG furnaces awarded two contracts for specialty automotive fasteners
CAN-ENG Furnaces International Ltd, Canada, has recently been awarded two contracts from one of the world’s largest producers of high volume, specialty automotive fasteners. The two systems being supplied represent CAN-ENG’s high-capacity line of Mesh Belt Fastener Heat Treatment Systems.
Continue readingTiangong International expands power metallurgy with Quintus Technologies
Tiangong International, China, has acquired Quintus Technologies Hot Isostatic Press (HIP) marking the culmination of its powder metallurgy (PM) manufacturing program launched three years ago. The second-largest producer of tool and die steel in the world, Tiangong is expanding capacity and boosting productivity with the QIH 232 M URC press.
Continue readingConstellium to sponsor skilled trades scholarships
Constellium, Paris will sponsor ten new skilled trades scholarships at West Virginia University, Parkersburg. Now in its second year, the program provides financial assistance to selected high school graduates to help them earn an associate degree in Multi-Craft Technology or Reliability and Maintenance Technology.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Sintering of power particles
During sintering, metallurgical bonds form between powder particles. Strength, ductility, toughness, and electrical and thermal conductivities increase with increasing density. If different materials were blended together, interdiffusion could promote the formation of alloys and intermetallic phases. As a consequence of the density increases, size decreases.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne approval
Solar Atmospheres, Greenville, S.C., has been awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne approval, their second aerospace prime approval of 2021.
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